tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31520579.post3304160351567454709..comments2023-10-26T07:40:04.450-06:00Comments on THE DONKEY'S MOUTH: Live from Israel: DAVID GOES TO POLAND, WANTS THE CCAR TO GROW SOME BALLSDavid A.M. Wilenskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033376629000540153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31520579.post-13538720740299120352006-11-17T16:39:00.000-06:002006-11-17T16:39:00.000-06:00I actually like the imagery. It's used in a civil...I actually like the imagery. It's used in a civil rights memorial by the "teaching tolerance" folks, etched into stone under a perpetual fountain. (I think Martin Luther King quoted the Christian version: Let truth well up from the earth/And justice flow like a mighty stream.) My major objection is to the repetition of "deliverance" and the almost equally redundant "salvation," which smacks of Christianity to me.<br /><br />I do not,however, agree that the lines are meaningless. To me they are simply a community version of the silent prayers I recite for myself: "Please help me improve the way I do thus and so. Please help me be a better thus and such." Truth and justice are, I think, admirable traits toward which a community can strive.<br /><br />Thus, so and such,<br />LaurenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31520579.post-35321923124108961852006-11-16T22:56:00.000-06:002006-11-16T22:56:00.000-06:00That's very strange.That's very strange.David A.M. Wilenskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18033376629000540153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31520579.post-58416900656012125592006-11-12T12:16:00.000-06:002006-11-12T12:16:00.000-06:00Those five lines sound like the current equivalent...Those five lines sound like the current equivalent of "puppies and aspens" passages that were appropriate for GOP in the 70s. <br /><br />I was recently surprised to read that Messianic Age doesn't refer to a time after a messiah comes, but a time when everything is that good and everyone is behaving that well. Maybe we all need fringes (or other alerts) to bring that on. <br /><br />Sarah Vowell read a story at the Paramount about the Oneida Colony, which was a bunch who believed that they were in the Messianic Age (started in 70CE in their belief system), but interpreted it rather oddly. For example, in heaven there will be no marriage, so if we are already essentially in heaven, then free love is OK, so particular love is bad, so passions and attachments are forbidden, so you can't develop talents, genius, or special abilities. If that's heaven, I'd rather stay here for a while longer....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com